James (Jim) Pooley focuses on trade secret management, as a testifying expert and advisor. He is an author or co-author of several major IP works, including his treatise Trade Secrets (Law Journal Press) and the Trade Secret Case Management Judicial Guide (Federal Judicial Center). His most recent business book is Secrets: Managing Information Assets in the Age of Cyberespionage (2d ed. 2024). The Senate Judiciary Committee relied on Jim for expert testimony and advice on the 2016 Defend Trade Secrets Act. From 2009 to 2014 Jim served as Deputy Director General of WIPO in Geneva, where he managed the PCT. He is a past President of AIPLA and Chairman of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He is Chair Emeritus of the Sedona Conference Working Group 12 on Trade Secrets. In 2016 Jim was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame.